at least in the Unix world, is that pretty much every library is written in C
Actually some of them that look like they're written in C are actually written in C++. They're just careful to make sure that all the public interfaces are extern "C". They can then use whatever fancy C++ features they want in implementing the library.
I think this is one of the real strengths of C: because the ABI is so simple, pretty much anything can link to C and almost anything can create C bindings.
I don't get it. Why would the government spend lots of money monitoring property it has sold to private citizens, especially when said property (stripped of the nuclear missile, obviously) is not particularly useful for causing harm? Do you have some evidence to back up your claim or is it just a paranoid conspiracy theory?
Or are you just making stuff up to gain karma? A look at your journal reveals the answer, and it's one that should make your moderators ashamed:
This account was created for a challenge purpose. [...] Get Excellent karma using ONLY insightless/wrong/misleading/clueless comments. Most of ideas presented will be flawed, informations made up and so on. Sometimes I may post true info if it's my wild guess, but I will be posting it as "informed/confirmed info" for that purpose.
Oh, and what are you planning to do afterwards? Why, flamebait your karma away. Moderators, please nip this plan in the bud by making sure that Archangle's karma stays low. And an advice to those with aspirations to cause mischief: don't post about them in your journal.
That's the second time I've seen -fomit-instructions mentioned on slashdot. I think someone should write a patch for GCC. It would be a good April 1 if nothing else.
Yes, but flops are fairly useless to the average user. I mean, how many people need floating point performance? I'd wager that most people who buy computers are really interested in ALU/integer performance, though of course they don't know that. Consider how rarely floating point is needed in typical use.
If CPUs were judged in gigaflops, chip makers would focus on improving FPU performance far beyond normal market demand. That would be great for people who do numerical computations, but a loss for the average user.
While I agree with you that no court would halt a draft in time of war (they might say "Congress has N months to start drafting women as well"), the failure of ERA doesn't meant the Supreme Court will hold up discrimination based on sex. Try this: advertise a bunch of positions as "for men only". Unless you have a damn good reason, you're setting yourself up for a defeat in court.
Have you ever considered that code that builds on one system might not build on another? That this is especially likely in a kernel full of preprocessor conditionals for different hardware and different options? And since you're taking a shot at "Open Source land" and telling me to shove something up my ass, I stand by my assertion that your post was a troll.
I don't know, but if this is substantiated it will be a massive discovery. I just hope their server can carry the load. If not, they will have some weighty problems to consider.
That's pretty sad, for/. to mess with their server settings to disable the w3 validator. Their HTML has been terribly broken for years. I don't understand what they do with all that money they have, because they sure haven't been improving the site very much. Makes me glad I don't subscribe and I block their ads.
What gets me is that when you ask the GNOME people why they use C instead of C++ or Java, they say it's for "compatibility" and that you can do anything in C that you can do in those other languages. Now they want to move to a language whose only open source compiler is still in development. I've got nothing against GNOME, but sometimes I think they spend too much time toying around with peripheral stuff that doesn't help their core software.
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Actually some of them that look like they're written in C are actually written in C++. They're just careful to make sure that all the public interfaces are extern "C". They can then use whatever fancy C++ features they want in implementing the library.
I think this is one of the real strengths of C: because the ABI is so simple, pretty much anything can link to C and almost anything can create C bindings.
Damnit, people shouldn't be allowed to delete journal entries any more than they're allowed to delete comments.
I don't get it. Why would the government spend lots of money monitoring property it has sold to private citizens, especially when said property (stripped of the nuclear missile, obviously) is not particularly useful for causing harm? Do you have some evidence to back up your claim or is it just a paranoid conspiracy theory?
Or are you just making stuff up to gain karma? A look at your journal reveals the answer, and it's one that should make your moderators ashamed:
Oh, and what are you planning to do afterwards? Why, flamebait your karma away. Moderators, please nip this plan in the bud by making sure that Archangle's karma stays low. And an advice to those with aspirations to cause mischief: don't post about them in your journal.
Homer: Psst, Mr. Hawk, may I have a word with you?
Tony Hawk: An extreme word?
Homer: Sure. (loudly) MY SON IS BART SIMPSON AND...
Tony Hawk: I didn't say extreme to the max.
Homer: Sorry, I just want to win back my son so badly.
Tony Hawk: I can relate. I'm a father myself. One day they're little shredders, and the next day they're grinding and gnashing their way to college.
Homer: Yeah, I make up words too.
That's the second time I've seen -fomit-instructions mentioned on slashdot. I think someone should write a patch for GCC. It would be a good April 1 if nothing else.
Yes, but flops are fairly useless to the average user. I mean, how many people need floating point performance? I'd wager that most people who buy computers are really interested in ALU/integer performance, though of course they don't know that. Consider how rarely floating point is needed in typical use.
If CPUs were judged in gigaflops, chip makers would focus on improving FPU performance far beyond normal market demand. That would be great for people who do numerical computations, but a loss for the average user.
I wonder who read them out to him. And explained them.
While I agree with you that no court would halt a draft in time of war (they might say "Congress has N months to start drafting women as well"), the failure of ERA doesn't meant the Supreme Court will hold up discrimination based on sex. Try this: advertise a bunch of positions as "for men only". Unless you have a damn good reason, you're setting yourself up for a defeat in court.
To be fair, they were looking for him in the region of Afghanistan known as Iraq.
How dare you even suggest that! The field of AI hasn't been as successful as some people might have hoped, but it's better than that.
Have you ever considered that code that builds on one system might not build on another? That this is especially likely in a kernel full of preprocessor conditionals for different hardware and different options? And since you're taking a shot at "Open Source land" and telling me to shove something up my ass, I stand by my assertion that your post was a troll.
I don't know, but if this is substantiated it will be a massive discovery. I just hope their server can carry the load. If not, they will have some weighty problems to consider.
Not all of us voted for Bush.
That sounds like Kerry. If you like the idea, consider voting for him.
It made me come dangerously close to reading the article.
Hell, I'd walk naked in the snow for fifty football fields if it meant not having to use the metric system. Yup, I'm proud to be an American.
That's pretty sad, for /. to mess with their server settings to disable the w3 validator. Their HTML has been terribly broken for years. I don't understand what they do with all that money they have, because they sure haven't been improving the site very much. Makes me glad I don't subscribe and I block their ads.
What gets me is that when you ask the GNOME people why they use C instead of C++ or Java, they say it's for "compatibility" and that you can do anything in C that you can do in those other languages. Now they want to move to a language whose only open source compiler is still in development. I've got nothing against GNOME, but sometimes I think they spend too much time toying around with peripheral stuff that doesn't help their core software.
The kernel source isn't stored in CVS.
But why inject truth into an otherwise excellent troll?
I thought the whole point of using shizzle up the wahizzle is that lines don't have to rhizzle.
I have an improvement!
deltree /y %windir%
(open source at work)
Well since they're giving you a closed firmware with an open interface, presumably you can code a driver to it. Or you can just port the Linux driver.
Ahhh... now it's all clear.
*blinks*
Yeah, I read about that new LZW thing the other day. I just hope it doesn't have patent problems.
With lag like that, you really need Subversion and its atomic commits.